Important Notes

A CD of this Service Pack will be made available in the next several weeks
for users who experience difficulties downloading the Service Pack from the
web site. Simply fill out the Request
a Service Pack CD order form.

Installing this Service Pack

ArcSDE 9.2 must be installed before you can install this Service Pack. It
is strongly recommended that you back up your database including all previous
ArcSDE system tables and user layer data before upgrading your ArcSDE installation.
If you have not yet applied the previous service pack, you do not have to do so before installing Service Pack 6 as it is cumulative and contains all fixes from the previous service pack. If you already have a previous service pack installed, you may apply Service Pack 6 over it to update the required files. Install this Service Pack using your SDE user account.

ArcSDE Server Install for UNIX

UNIX Installation Notes:

To find out what ArcGIS products are currently installed on your machine,
download and extract the PatchFinder.tar
and run PatchFinder utility from your local machine. This
utility provides a report detailing which ArcGIS products and which service
packs have been installed. The PatchFinder utility searches for the
following ArcGIS products.

Installation Steps:

During installation, you can either save the original 9.2 files or overwrite them.
If you choose to save them, make sure you have enough disk space. The disk space requirements,
for each platform, are displayed during the installation process.

NOTE (AIX only): You must remove any inactive libraries that are loaded
into memory before proceeding to the next step. Not doing so will result in
an installation error. To remove them, as ROOT user, type:

# /usr/sbin/slibclean

(Optional) To list the libraries loaded into memory, as ROOT user,
type:

# /usr/sbin/genkld

For further information on the slibclean and genkld commands please refer
to your AIX system administrator documentation.

Extract the specified tar file by typing:

% tar -xvf sde92-sp6-<Database>-<Platform>.tar

Start the installation by typing:

% ./applypatch

This will start the dialog for the menu-driven installation procedure. Default
selections are noted in parentheses ( ). To quit the installation procedure,
type 'q' at any time.

(Oracle only) Before upgrading your Oracle instance, you must grant the
following additional permissions to the SDE user in Oracle:

To upgrade, run sdesetup. Failure to do so may cause problems
in starting the service or with connecting to the service. Please go to the admin command guide under the %SDEHOME%\documentation
folder for more information on using this command:

Only for users who have Oracle and ArcSDE installed on separate machines.

If you are installing ArcSDE on a different server than Oracle, you must copy the shared libraries used by EXTPROC to the Oracle server. These libraries include st_shapelib plus the Geometry library and the Projection Engine library. (The names of these files vary depending on what operating system (OS) you are using.) Be sure the files copied to the Oracle server are designed to run on the operating system of the Oracle server. For example, if ArcSDE is installed on a Linux machine, but Oracle is installed on a Solaris machine, the library files you copy to the Oracle server must be for Solaris. To get the files for different operating system, you can install the software files of the ArcSDE component on the Oracle server, creating the SDEHOME files, and delete everything but the three required library files.

Library Name

OS-dependent file names

st_shapelib

st_shapelib.dll, libst_shapelib.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

Projection Engine

pe.dll, libpe.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

Geometry

sg.dll, libsg.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

These files can be found in the bin (Windows) or lib (UNIX/Linux) directory of SDEHOME after you've installed the ArcSDE component. You can copy these files to the %ORACLE_HOME%\lib (Windows) or $ORACLE_HOME/lib (UNIX/Linux) directory on the Oracle server, which is the default location that Oracle looks in for shared libraries. Or, you can leave these files where they were installed or move them into any directory that is accessible to the user that owns ORACLE_HOME.

NOTE: If there is no native ArcSDE build for the operating system of the server hosting the Oracle database, then there is no support for SQL access to ST_Geometry. ST_Geometry storage can be used from ArcSDE clients, but SQL access to this data is not supported. For example, if you use an ArcSDE 32-bit build to connect to a 64-bit Oracle database on a 64-bit operating system, you cannot use SQL to access the ST_Geometry type.

If you have more than one ArcSDE service, perform steps 1 through 8 for each of your ArcSDE services.

ArcSDE Server Install for Windows

Windows Installation Notes:

It is important to keep all versions of ArcGIS products installed on
the same machine in sync to avoid any software conflicts.

To find out what products are currently installed on your machine, download and run the ServicePackFinder92.exe utility. This utility provides a report detailing
which ArcGIS products are currently installed on your machine. This will
help determine which product Service Packs you should install on your machine.
The report also details which service packs have been installed. The report
is displayed when the utility is run and a servicepack.txt log file is created
in your temp folder. The Service Pack Finder utility searches for the following
ArcGIS products.

NOTE (ArcIMS and ArcGIS Desktop users): If you use ArcIMS 9.2 or
ArcGIS Desktop 9.2, you must also install ArcIMS
9.2 Service Pack 6 or ArcGIS
9.2 Service Pack 6 . For example, if you use ArcIMS 9.2 and ArcSDE 9.2,
install both ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 6 and ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 6. Since
ArcIMS 9.2, ArcSDE 9.2 and the ArcGIS 9.2 products share common DLLs, it
is important to keep the software release versions in sync to avoid any
software conflicts.

Installation Steps

Make sure you have write access to the ArcSDE installation folder, that
no one is using ArcSDE, and that the ArcSDE service is down.

NOTE: If you do not shut down the ArcSDE service before installing
this Service Pack, you will be prompted and required to reboot your server
machine in order to successfully complete the Service Pack installation.

Download the appropriate files to a location other than the ArcSDE installation
folder:

To upgrade, run sdesetup. Failure to do so may cause problems in starting the service or with connecting to the service. Please go to the admin command guide under the %SDEHOME%\documentation folder for more information on using this command:

As the SDE user, run the following command to restart the ArcSDE service:

c:\sdemon -o start

Only for users who have Oracle and ArcSDE installed on separate machines.

If you are installing ArcSDE on a different server than Oracle, you must copy the shared libraries used by EXTPROC to the Oracle server. These libraries include st_shapelib plus the Geometry library and the Projection Engine library. (The names of these files vary depending on what operating system (OS) you are using.) Be sure the files copied to the Oracle server are designed to run on the operating system of the Oracle server. For example, if ArcSDE is installed on a Windows machine, but Oracle is installed on a Solaris machine, the library files you copy to the Oracle server must be for Solaris. To get the files for different operating system, you can install the software files of the ArcSDE component on the Oracle server, creating the SDEHOME files, and delete everything but the three required library files.

Library Name

OS-dependent file names

st_shapelib

st_shapelib.dll, libst_shapelib.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

Projection Engine

pe.dll, libpe.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

Geometry

sg.dll, libsg.so (.sl for HP, _64.so for IBM64)

These files can be found in the bin (Windows) or lib (UNIX/Linux) directory of SDEHOME after you've installed the ArcSDE component. You can copy these files to the %ORACLE_HOME%\lib (Windows) or $ORACLE_HOME/lib (UNIX/Linux) directory on the Oracle server, which is the default location that Oracle looks in for shared libraries. Or, you can leave these files where they were installed or move them into any directory that is accessible to the user that owns ORACLE_HOME.

NOTE: If there is no native ArcSDE build for the operating system of the server hosting the Oracle database, then there is no support for SQL access to ST_Geometry. ST_Geometry storage can be used from ArcSDE clients, but SQL access to this data is not supported. For example, if you use an ArcSDE 32-bit build to connect to a 64-bit Oracle database on a 64-bit operating system, you cannot use SQL to access the ST_Geometry type.

If you have more than one ArcSDE service, perform steps 2 through 9 for each of your ArcSDE services.

ArcSDE SDK Install for UNIX

Installation Steps:

Download the appropriate tar file to a location other than ArcSDE SDK installation
location:

If you connect to ArcSDE 9.2 from ArcGIS 9.2 or ArcIMS 9.2, you must install the corresponding Service Pack for your client product. The client updates contained in ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 6 are also included in
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 6 and ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 6. This is necessary to
maintain version compatibility between the client and the server applications.

If you connect to ArcSDE 9.2 using ArcInfo Workstation 9.2 please follow the steps below to install this Service
Pack to your ArcInfo Workstation 9.2 software installation location:

UNIX

Before you start, make sure you have write access to the installation
directory then download the appropriate compressed tar file to that
location:

Use WinZip to extract the new files from sde92-sp6-esri-win.zip to
the appropriate installation folder, see list below:

ArcInfo Workstation 9.2 - <installation-folder>\arcexe9x\bin

How to identify which Service Pack is installed

UNIX

To find out what ArcGIS products are currently installed on your machine, download and extract the PatchFinder utility to your machine and run it from your local machine. This
utility provides a report detailing which ArcGIS products and which service
packs have been installed. The PatchFinder utility searches for the
following ArcGIS products.

To find out what products are currently installed on your machine, download and run the ServicePackFinder92.exe utility. This utility provides a report
detailing which ArcGIS products and which service packs have been installed.
The report is displayed when the utility is run and a servicepack.txt log
file is created in your temp folder. The Service Pack Finder utility searches
for the following ArcGIS products.

Service Pack Updates

Check Online Support Center periodically for the availability of additional Service Packs.
New information about this Service Pack will be posted here.

March 13, 2009: Added new NOTE to Step 9 of instructions.

Getting Help

Domestic sites, please contact ESRI Technical Support at 1-888-377-4575, if you have any difficulty installing this Service Pack. International sites, please contact your local ESRI software distributor.